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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Letters to the Editor

Global education crisis is a problem America can help fix

The world has set global goals to ensure all children get a quality education by 2030. But new data from UNESCO says that 250 million school-age children are not in school. That’s 6 million more since 2021. (stock.adobe.com)

Just as we are getting children settled into school for the year, startling new information on global education has come out.

The world has set global goals to ensure all children get a quality education by 2030. But new data from UNESCO says that 250 million school-age children are not in school — 6 million more since 2021. That’s one in six of the world’s children. And for the world to achieve the 2030 goals, we must enroll one child in school every two seconds between now and 2030.

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